WEBVTT - Jadeveon Clowney Returns to Houston: "It Was a No-Brainer for Me" 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.120 What's up? Everybody? 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome into a Monday edition to Texans All Access from 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.640 Monday Texans Radio Studio. And don't worry, it's not twenty fourteen. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.520 It just might feel that way. As John Harris and 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:16.720 Mark vandermir are with you this evening. And Mark, we 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:19.360 have one of the best guests, one of the best 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.560 gets we've ever gotten. 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:24.840 As we bring in twenty fourteen's. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:29.640 Overall number one draft pick, Gidevion Clowney. We saw the 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.080 news you texted me yesterday and you had a two 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:34.760 word text I can't say on radio because I was 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.080 helping my son move and I missed it. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:38.159 And as soon as I. 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.080 Went to Twitter, I saw at Jadeveon Clowney signs with 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:46.120 the Texans. This Mark, I'm I told him this is 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.280 the greatest weird thing that's ever happened. 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.959 You brought it up in a show I want to say, 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.559 about a week or so ago, maybe longer. What do 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.440 you think of signing Clowney? I'm thinking, come on, things 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.760 like this don't happen. Just move on to the next topic. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.000 What are we thinking about here? And then I thought, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.160 but is he gonna want to come here? Does he 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.560 want to be the man and get all the sacks 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.520 and start and that kind of thing, because the team 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:12.640 here needs a player at that position to play a role, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:14.760 and it could be a prominent role, could be a 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.119 lot of snaps, as it turns out, because you never 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.679 know what happens with rotation. And you mentioned playing him 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.360 inside or whatever. But Johnny, when I saw it, I thought, oh, 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.600 they're all in. We knew they were all in anyway. 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:25.959 Yep. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.360 Their actions speak louder than words. With everything they've done 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.440 this offseason, even adding to the defense, which was so 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.479 good last year, but everything they've done offensively, Let's revamp 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.560 the line again. Let's just go in on rebuilding, reloading, 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.880 improving the line. Let's get David Montgomery. Let's go and 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:46.319 then they do this. This is going to be a 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:47.920 hard team to move the ball against. But we can 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.400 get into all that, Johnny, this is a fantastic thing 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.320 to have Jadeveon Clowney on the football team. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:52.560 Here. 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.360 It is Mark and I with Jadeveon Clowney. 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.680 Look who's in studio with us in battle red back 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.040 where he belongs, Jadevion Clowny, JD. 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:01.840 Great to see. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:02.440 How's it going. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.160 It's going good man, Excited to be back, looking forward 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.880 the opportunity, can't wait to get going. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.600 Okay, I said this, I said, seeing you again. Now, 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.800 you and I we've seen each other at different stops. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.840 Who's been great? This is like the best weird feeling 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.600 that I've had in a while. How is it for 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.720 you after eight years coming back into building? 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.720 Oh it's same, It's very weird, but it's exciting. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.080 I told my fiance, I, me and my wife that 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.760 I was like, it's gonna be a big, big difference 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.000 for me after leaving for so long and coming back, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.400 But I'm looking forward to I think I've got a 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.240 great team here. I can help contribute and you know, 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:36.400 chasing that super Bowl. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.720 You left, but in many ways you never did because 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.120 you are still a Houstonian and have been even though 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.880 you've played for several other teams. What's that been like 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.160 still being in Houston, JD. 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.160 It's been great. And I've been raising my family. I 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.840 got three beautiful kids, ten year old, a six year old, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.840 and a four year old, and they love Houston, born 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.080 and raised here, and we've just been had the whole time, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.480 just been playing football all the places. But I've been 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.600 watching from a distance, and it's been great and I'm 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:01.800 just happy to be back in the building. 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.840 So when you say that and you mentioned your wife, yes, sir, 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.960 I think back to when you walked in this building 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.440 in twenty fourteen, wide eyed, twenty twenty one years old. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.960 I just turned twenty one, I mean, no kids at 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.240 that point, right to where you are now. What's probably 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.280 the biggest change in you a as a person JD 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:20.480 and as a player. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.560 Just growing up as far as becoming a man, learning 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:26.960 more about myself. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.120 And being patient. 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.720 My patients have grown, and just you know, just becoming 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.160 a man, like having kids to teach you patients and yeah, 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.560 teach you everything about life and it just can't rush 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.200 with your stuff and how to do things slow and 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:42.520 take your time and making decisions. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.160 And I think that's been. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.240 The biggest chance for me, getting married and you know, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.320 having kids and been in the family being great for me. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.360 Seven teams, Jadevian, and you look at each situation, it's 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.119 all different, right, So every time you go somewhere you've 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.960 been able to contribute, but each situation is different. What 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.200 was that process like getting acclimated to each team and 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.040 then being a success. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.560 Oh, man, it was difficult sometimes because sometimes going out 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.400 the training camp and you know, try to jump to 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.000 this team and a scheme in the middle of the season. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.640 But I always just say, at the end of the day, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.560 one thing you can do is play football, you know, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.680 and you a football player to be very instinctive. And 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.839 I knew that about myself, so every time I walked 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.719 out down so I might not know the playbook like 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.280 that off the back, but I'm a very distinctive player 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.440 of playing football. So I just let my instincts take over. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.839 And I just kept succeeding throughout my career playing no 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.000 matter where I went, I just kept succeeding, playing at 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.640 a high level. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.200 JAD, how much did you did you know Demiko Ryans 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.040 before this process that you guys met before, because I know, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.080 I don't think you guys crossed over in a building 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.119 that I can remember here. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.400 Did you have, you know, just knowledge of Demiko? 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.640 What was kind of your thought about, Hey, I like 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.840 what Demko's doing, I like what the defense is doing, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.840 and it's obviously your home here in Houston. How much 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.520 did all that play a factor? Demiko Ryans very much 0:04:56.560 --> 0:04:59.560 a lot past seven eight years. Like I said, since 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.720 he signed, I've been watching from a distance, like don 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.920 he got that team ready to play them guys follow him, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.920 They bond in and you want to be a part 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:10.880 of an organization like that and the guy that everybody's 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.880 believing can lead. And for me watching that on TV 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.000 and you I'm at home watching it on TV, I'm like, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:18.560 I can be a part of I know I can 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.200 help that team. And when it was time and then 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.320 I had the opportunity to come back, it was a 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.120 no brainer for me. And it matter about the money 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.000 and other teams that was called, I was like, oh man, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:29.240 I got a chance to go back to where it 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.000 all started and try to finish it how I want 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.920 to finish my career and my legacy and the place 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.440 where it started. So that's what I was thinking about 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.719 when I made my decision this offseason. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.400 How do you see yourself fitting in? Did they talk 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.080 to you about that your role? Because some pretty good 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:46.040 pass rushers. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.040 Here is no question, Like I said, I told them, guys, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.320 I know they got great pass rushers. I'm just a 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.520 great player of myself. I just told them it ain't 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.440 gonna be no fall off out of them three. You 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.760 won't be able to tell the difference. So see, you know, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.720 I don't want to just keep speaking on I want 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.159 to I'm gonna show me guys. So I'm just gonna 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:07.800 show up every day and show them guys what I 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.480 can do and contribute to help the team anyway I can. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:14.000 Johnny's already talking about moving you inside, sometimes inside, outside, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.440 you everywhere. Yeah, and you like that too, right, Yea. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:17.840 I played it all a lot here when I was 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:19.880 When I was here, I played inside a lot, like 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.640 rushing up the middle, over the guards, over the center. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.599 I feel like I can pretty much help any any 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.599 way they can see me fit and I still dominate 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.040 the run, game, still dominate, you know, getting to the quarterback, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.600 paying pressure. So you know, I just, like I said, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.839 having fun with it and continue to try to continue 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.159 my career and know what other place to do it 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:40.560 in back in Houston where I started. 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.480 One of my favorite moments, JD. We were in the 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:43.520 locker room. I don't if you remember this. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.680 We're in the locker room and I was interviewing somebody 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.039 after the game, is player of the game. And I 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.120 remember you looked at me and you're like, hey, you'll 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:51.760 be talking to me. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.400 Next week, you feel me? Yeah, and you. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.039 I mean you called your shot. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.640 And then it was Indianapolis twenty sixteen and you had 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.920 to sack on Andrew forced to fumble, kept him out 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:02.440 of the end zone. 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:03.839 So we were talking about that this morning. 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:05.680 Do you have a player or a moment that you 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.800 remember most from your first stint with the Texans that 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:10.200 you got? 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:10.440 You have? 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.520 You have like you know what that one? 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.960 Because I said to Mark, I have a couple of 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.800 moments that didn't show up on the stat sheet. We 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.200 had your interception against the Raiders in playoff game, which 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.520 is cool. You had to touchdown against New England. Those 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.320 are great stats on the stat sheet. I have some 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:27.480 you chased now brand La fell. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:31.120 Against the Bengals. You almost caught it. That was pretty 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:32.000 damn impressive. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:32.640 Uh. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.320 And then in the playoff game against the Patriots, up 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:36.840 there you hit Tom Brady. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:37.720 I thought you broke him. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.240 Me too, I thought I got him, but. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.400 I thought you had it. I thought I didn't think 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:42.680 he was getting up from that. But do you have 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.240 one like a favorite memory? 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.760 It was so many When it comes to ask you, 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.080 I remember what we was playing, I want to say 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:49.120 the Minnesota Vikers. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:49.520 One year. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.080 Yeah, yeah, I got some big hits on one of 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.920 their running backs and I was just like it was them. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.000 Some of the best hits it went on helmet knockoffs, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.640 but yes, slide inside, boom boom, guys on the goal 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.000 line trying to squeeze in and all of that just 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.080 was played memories and especially against the coachs. Yeah, all 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.200 the years playing against Andrew Luck and you know, making 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.840 plays against the Vision was crazy for me, And you 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.200 know that was how we always see that as being 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:16.960 playing in tests, got to beat up on the division, 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:18.760 so all of them division games, and me was so 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.360 big that I always wanted to make plays and try 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.840 to contribute. So that's all I kept thinking about, like 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.640 what can I do to help the team and make plays. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:29.240 So it was so much that I could talk about 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.800 on teams, Like you said, the playoff game, we try 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.600 to make the run against the Raiders to pick six, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.120 talking for lost when I pulled the guy's hair down. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.400 Yeah that's right, that's one of great plays for me. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.679 And you know I was like I got a boy 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:45.640 one dread so you know, yeah, well, so it was 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.440 so much here, so much history for me and so 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.040 much from part of my legacy that I had picked 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.200 down in the first five years of my career making 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.880 all Pro was here. You know, my feelt, like I said, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.440 raised my family here. So it's been great for me. 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.160 Yeah, twenty sixteen is no, not because you were the 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.960 number one defense in the league in this past year 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.319 Texans number one defense in the league. We're talking yards 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.680 per game, and that was you and Whitney just reaking 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.800 have it up front along with everybody else. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.000 DJ Reader, Are you in touch with a lot of 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.319 the guys still? 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.679 I do. 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.240 I work out with DJ Reader all the time, Okay, 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.880 Kareem Jackson, Jonathan Jose, all them guys. I still stay 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.160 in sush with him. You know, our kids hang out together. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.400 It's just been great just developing the relationships over the 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.680 years and catedo on throughout my life. It's been great, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.800 even though I haven't been playing with them. You know, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:35.720 every all season I get up with him. I stay here, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.920 Jonathan Joe's I see his kids. DJ Reader, we got 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.559 two boys now. It's like, hey, we were just blessed 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.800 to continue to play the game we love and you know, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:46.760 and our kids get to watch us now, my kids 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.079 and it's just been fun for me. 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.120 From that standpoint. Them getting a chance to watch you 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.800 on television. How cool is that for you? Because we've 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.679 talked to people you know when they have kids, Like 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.920 we saw DJ last year up in Detroit. We had 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.480 long chat with him. It was good to see him. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.520 But when you're kids get a chance to watch you, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.240 what's that like? 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:02.680 Man? 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.840 You just don't want to let him down. My son 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.200 know the game and he like it's so funny. I 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:12.160 signed a Dallas late last year and my first game 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.199 was Rusty against Green Bay Packerdson and after the game 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:16.000 he was like, Dad. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:17.640 I know they wouldn't you out there. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.319 And I was like, son, I promise you if I 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.160 don't do nothing, I'm gonna get better from here. You 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.640 know they ain't gonna give back, but I'm gonna get 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.720 nothing better. I just got knocked to rust out. He's 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.800 like my dad was. He fell down a few times. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.400 I promise you sound getting better. But he noticed that 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.040 type of stuff at ten years old. He watched the 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.480 game tight now and I just be wanting to prove 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.520 him that I can still go. So half of the 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.760 stuff I do because of my kids, you know, I 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.480 be consistent more consistent now in my career and work 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.800 it out is because my son work out with and 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:47.400 I do a lot of stuff to try to lead him, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.480 to show him how you're supposed to go about it. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.959 Thirteenth year in the league, and that's incredibly difficult to 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.320 accomplish no matter who you are. So how have you 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.280 changed over the years in terms of the way you 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.480 take care of yourself, if at all? Because you came 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:01.880 in and twenty fourteen, I mean that's a while ago, 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:03.240 So how's that evolved for you? 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:03.559 Man? 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.839 It started crazy because, like I said, I got hurt 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.400 my first game of my career. I probably played like 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.920 seven eight snaps and had that microfraction. I came in 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.160 at two seventy, you know, and I had to slim 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.280 up because I couldn't. I had no more catlage on 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.240 my knee for these years. But all these years, it's 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.080 just been really developing a different way to attack my 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:26.480 body as far as like getting inflammation out or you know, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.760 trying to get my knee flexion back. And over the year, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.920 I've just been increasing myself for getting better and better 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.520 and better. And I know I'm getting older in the age, 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.080 but my body started feeling better the later in my career, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.600 and it kind of helped me, you know, just getting 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.679 healthier and taking care of I spent a lot of 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.760 money on it. I spent a lot of money in 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.280 my body. But it's also worked out for being paid 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.000 off for me and I still get to play thirteen 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.240 years in the lead. Like I said, it's been a blessing. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.120 I'm just blessed to be here, continue to be playing 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.200 because it could have been over with a long time ago. 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.360 I started, you know, I had injury, injury, injury, back 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.600 to back to back to both of our girls too, 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.160 my knee up here, all here, and then it started 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.760 getting better. I just thank God for that because I 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.800 didn't know at one point at time in my career, 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.320 I didn't know what was gonna happen. I was like, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.679 I don't know, ma, I just couldn't get over the 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.560 injury part of my first two years. And then I 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.040 started getting better, you know, and it started coming together 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.319 and then started kept making plays. 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:24.120 Well, there are a lot of offensive linemen that would 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.160 like for you have stepped away at that point, but 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:26.720 you didn't. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:27.600 I remember. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.840 I think I can tell the story now. It was 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.440 twenty eighteen we went to Denver and Jjo was hurt 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.640 and j J wasn't playing, and we went we went 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.120 back on the field. That was the Demeri that was 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.160 the Marrius game. Yeah, that was when we had gotten 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.280 the Marrius and de Marius was playing back in Denver 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.839 with us and we ended up winning the game. Miss 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.480 the field and all that, But I remember Jjo walked 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.480 by me by halftime and he goes, you know, clowne 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.720 ain't supposed to be playing. And I was like, what 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:52.439 do you mean? He goes, you had like a I 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.400 don't know what's the worst. 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:54.000 What's the worst? 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:54.360 You got? 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:54.400 Like? 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:54.640 Great? 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:56.800 Is grade one the worst? Or grade three? 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:56.640 Three? 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:01.120 Grade two? He's like he's got a grade three ruin issue. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:06.440 And I was like playing and you were playing that game, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.600 and I just remember it's like Klina shouldn't be out there, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.400 and I was like, and yeah, at the NFL level, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.280 you do have to do make sacrifices. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.520 You do play when you're when you're hurt. You know, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.679 there's difference between being hurt and injured. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:21.840 But at what point did you kind of have that 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.680 epiphany of you know, what, how do I take care. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.000 Of my body a little bit better? When did you 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:26.960 have When did that hit you? 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:28.320 Probably when I left here. 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:33.480 Okay, I was young, getting naives, and anybody could have 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:35.800 got meen to do anything at twenty twenty one, especially 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.040 when you drafted me here. You know, I didn't know 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:39.920 no better. If I knew what I knew now, I 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.319 probably would have told them, hey, just let me get healthy, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.760 fully healthy, and try to come back. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:44.160 Well. 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.440 I would have to keep getting hurt. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:45.760 Sure. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.520 I just kept going out there, listen to other people 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.760 tell me, oh, you can do it, and I went 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.359 listened to myself and I kept hit myself in the situations. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.040 So it was like young, just being young. And as 0:13:58.080 --> 0:13:59.480 I got older, I started I to just take care 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.240 of your body, you know, listen to your body. Don't 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.360 let nobody else tell you how to go or where 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:04.839 you should be at in six weeks. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:05.040 You know. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.160 They put a timetable on me to get back healthy. 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.320 And when it came to their point and I went there, 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.600 I started saying in my head, I gotta go because 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:12.120 it's past. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.040 It's six weeks, you know, that's what they told me. 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:15.080 I should be feeling better. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.000 So I started trying to do stuff because other people 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.280 are not myself at that point of time in my 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.200 career when I was younger. As I got older, I 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.560 started saying, just take care of me and everything and 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.040 take care of itself. So that's what I changed that 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:26.680 when I left. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.800 It's wild to me that we have a player here 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.600 who is teammates with Andre Johnson and you're still with 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.120 the Texans while you're back, you're originally with the Texans. 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.240 But what do you make of the building, the facilities 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.920 people around here, Because it's different than when you were here. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.760 It's time saying that it's so much. It's so different. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.640 It's so much better. To locker rooms amazing, Yeah, the 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:52.600 weight rooms amazing, the upstairs put it upstairs and there. Yeah, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.280 it's crazy. I said, I couldn't even come up with it. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.880 How could they evolve that much and add that much 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.720 in this building? But they figured it out. It's nice doing. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.280 The training room is huge now they scripted it. It 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.520 looked so much bigger than when I was when I 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.880 was here. The food great, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.360 ate that twice they had lamb chopped chicken. 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 It was it was great. But it's just been great. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:14.560 Man. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.200 Like I said, just I'm just happy to be back 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.280 here back playing and continue my career here. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.840 So this morning we were doing our show kind of 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.280 the corner as you you know, walk on the practice field. 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.280 We're at that first corner when everybody walks by, so 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.920 we expect you to say hi, that's tomorrow. But I 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.680 saw the fans, fans going by, and they all wearing jerseys, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.360 and you know, saw Nico go by. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:34.040 I saw a CJ. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.800 Strad go by, and then I saw one woman that 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.600 was walking by and she had a ninety Clowny jerseys on. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.720 People have not forgotten you around here, man, like they 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.640 have not forgotten about you. There was an excitement yesterday 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.040 when it was announced that you were coming back to 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.520